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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation

by David Farley, Jez Humble
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
15h 48m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 14. Advanced Version Control

Introduction

Version control systems, also known as source control and revision control systems, are designed to allow organizations to maintain a complete history of every change made to their applications, including source code, documentation, database definitions, build scripts, tests, and so forth. However, they also serve another important purpose: They enable teams to work together on separate parts of an application while maintaining a system of record—the definitive codebase of the application.

Once your team grows beyond a handful of developers, it becomes hard to have many people working full-time on the same version control repository. People break each other’s functionality by mistake, and generally ...

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